Can’t get past the paywall, but there’s enough info to be outraged:
A police officer who fatally shot a dog while responding to a mistaken report of a domestic disturbance can’t be sued by her owners, the Eighth Circuit affirmed Thursday.
A neighbor of Brandee Buschmann and William Morrison called the Kansas City, Mo., police department to report noises which led him to believe that a domestic disturbance was occurring at their home. Officers John Beck and Jeffrey Lagud arrived to investigate, and Beck shot and killed the residents’ dog, a 14-year-old rescue named Sierra, shortly after Lagud knocked on the door. Upon investigating, the officers determined the neighbor’s reported noises had…
When an individual takes matters into their own hands, it will be them versus the entire police establishment. There won’t magically appear an army of citizens beside them to help them out. This fight was lost before we even realized it needed to be fought.
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That’s because people kept banging the drum that the citizenry shouldn’t be better armed than the state.
biggest problem with that theory (that an armed populace checks abusive government) seems to be that the folks that tend to be most-armed are also routinely cheering the police on as they abuse their authority
Oh for fucks sake, how many more guns will stop the police bullshit?? Like really, if every citizen had 100 guns, would that fix the police???
This idiotic, infantile idea that somehow more guns is the solution is so fucking moronic.
If you lived in a fucking wild wild west banana Republic you MIGHT be right, but any halfway functioning society will never be fixed with mur gunz!!
So fucking sick of seeing this idiotic comment.
The day your solution actually works will be the day I hope me and my loved ones are long gone because you are describing a hellscape where the only recourse people have to make any political change is through gun violence.